The Operating Systems Handbook
In today's multivendor client/server environments, it is essential that computer professionals know how to do their job across a variety of platforms and systems. This book should help readers who are experts at using one of the five most popular mainframe and mid-range operating systems become skilled users of the other four.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0070178917
ISBN13:9780070178915
Release Date:January 1994
Publisher:McGraw-Hill Companies
Length:390 Pages
Weight:5.95 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 7.6" x 9.6"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
the definitive field guide to dinosaur mainframes
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
This is an excellent overview of various obsolete mainframe operating systems (not to mention Unix, which is not obsolete.) You know the systems I mean: the ones you access using those ugly old green and black screens in a dusty corner of your IT department's offices, the ones with the humongous databases hidden behind arcane text-based software. The potentially dry material is greatly moistened by DuCharme's witty yet understated writing style.There are still a lot of those dinosaur mainframes still roaming the earth, Y2K notwithstanding, so this field guide is still useful, a full half-decade after it was published.
Very good overview of major O/Ses. Still applicable.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
If you want to have a good overview of all the major mini/mainframe OSes, this is the book. The absence of NT and the inclusion of VM is questionable but this could be addressed by a 2nd edition. If you are looking for an in-depth discussion of the internals of each system this is not your book. But if you need to navigate multiple OSes in a multiplatform environment this is your best bet.
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